Proceedings of CHAT 2012: The 2nd Workshop on the Creation; Harmonization and Application of Terminology Resources; Co-located with TKE 2012; June 22; 2012; Madrid; Spain

Publication type:

Conference proceedings

Issue:

072

Language:

English

Introduction:

We are delighted to hereby present the proceedings of CHAT 2012: the second workshop on the Creation; Harmonization and Application of Terminology resources held on 22 June; 2012 in Madrid; Spain. It was co-located with TKE 2012: the conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering.

The workshop aimed at bringing together academic and industrial players in the terminology field and attracting holders of terminology resources. The workshop also focused on fostering the cooperation between EU projects and research and development activities in the area of terminology along with sharing experience and discussing recent advances of the consolidation; harmonization and distribution of terminology resources; as well as their practical application in various domains.

Altogether; in the result of a blind peer-review; 7 papers have been selected for presentation (4 regular papers and 3 short papers). The workshop papers cover various topics on automated approaches to terminology extraction and creation of terminology resources; compiling multilingual terminology; ensuring interoperability and harmonization of terminology resources; integrating these resources in language processing applications; distributing and sharing terminology data; and other.

We hope that you will find these proceedings interesting; comprehensive and useful for your further research within the development of terminology resources and services of future.